I THINK Moulamein did a great job hosting the football and netball finals last weekend, but I might be a bit biased.
Whoever did the organising did a great job and we seemed to feed everyone without too much of a wait.
I think the gate was over $10,000. This means that almost 700 paying customers came through and by the looks of it, just as many kids.
So, we fed about 1000 hungry people for the day. Whoever has got the next finals, stock up your fridges and freezers. They are a hungry mob.
I haven’t got the figures back of the food we sold, but I think there were over 300 steaks in the esky. They all got cooked.
Back to the games and we had our Under 17 football and netball teams in as well as the A Grade netball team.
Well done to our Under 17 netballers for getting into the finals, but unfortunately our girls went down.
Under 17 footballers made it through to the next round as well as the A Grade netballers.
Their next games will be at Macorna in a fortnight against the losers of this week’s finals.
Our B Grade netballers, as well as our seniors, go to Ultima to play Ultima in the football and Murrabit in the netball. Good luck to both teams.
If you win, straight into the grand final and a second chance if you get done.
That leaves us with four teams still in the finals. See you all there Saturday to help cheer the Swans into the grand final.
Thank you again to all those that took on a job and made our final at Moulamein a great success.
Great bowls weekend
WE had a great roll-up to the September Classic Bowls Tournament held in August.
There were almost two rinks filled and visiting bowlers were well fed.
When it came down to the line of the playoffs, every team had at least one Moulamein pennant player in it.
That is a great sign for our pennant teams this year.
Dennis and his team took out the honours.
I forgot to mention in my promotion that it is a gold-letter event. Dennis and his team will be put up in gold as soon as possible.
A big thank you to the sponsors for the day. Without your input, the winners would be going home with the promise of their name up in gold without the prizemoney.
Also, a big thank you to all of the organisers, the helpers and all those that turned up for a great couple of days.
Varroa mite getting closer
THIS is something we do not think much about, but this little bugger who came in on a ship last year unnoticed could wipe out our wild bee population as they have no resistance to this new rotten little pest.
It has now got to Balranald at the time of writing. Without bees, not much pollinates.
The almond farms needed pollination, so they bought down tens of thousands of beehives from up north near where the varroa mite was contained.
Bee swarms wanted
ON the positive side of bees, if there is one, my young fella is still interested in removing bees if you have a swarm of them land on your place, as he is trying to get into beekeeping.
Could be a bit like buying sheep at the moment, but only time will tell.
We are still not in the purple zone so they would be probably be better off in a box than flying around the country spreading the mite.
If you have a swam turn up, give Dicko a ring on 0417 872 469. If the bees live long enough, he will drop you in a jar of honey.
Southern bell frogs
THESE things are supposed to be rare. We are starting to get ready for our irrigation season so everything is getting a bit dry.
If I lift an irrigation slide, miles from a water source, there are southern bell frogs under it.
The ground is cracked under the slide, and there may be ants under there as well, but they are big giant frogs.
They are survivors, so once we start the water they should breed again.
The southern bell frog is in the top 100 endangered species in our great country. But not around our district, they are everywhere.
They will not be able to drill holes to put this new power line through. They will keep drilling up bell frogs.
They are out and about
KEEP an eye on your kids, grandkids and dogs. Snakes bred well last year and they will have plenty of food around again this year as the mice are plentiful.
The bell frogs are delicious and the snakes are just coming out of hibernation hungry.
The frogs are back out as well after their hibernation.
Let’s hope the frogs can breed quicker than the snakes can eat them.
River levels
THE Edward River has continued to drop.
Our rivers will all continue to drop unless there is a rain event up in our catchments.
The Edward at Moulamein is just over 3500 megalitres a day and about 2.8 metres.
Our fish are still too well fed and bites are rare.
There was a 60cm cod caught on cheese on the weekend. But they must know that cod season closes this week. So, they will go out for a feed then.
